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Some Questions To Indian Parliamentarians?
Punchline A Word With Visitors By Z.G.Muhammad In less than a decade, this is third ‘Intifada’. Today, when it is the second day of your sojourn in the “salubrious” environs of the Dal Lake, whose waters also have turned carmine with the blood of Kashmiris, the ‘Intifada-III’ has entered into the 58th day. In the history of the struggle of the sub-continent against the British spreading over decades, there is no parallel to these goriest days. Not only in the history of sub-continent, all over the world where ever people struggled for their fundamental right, the right to self-determination there is not a single instance where children and youth were subjected to what New York Times in a lead story on 28 August described as ‘Dead Eyes’ Epidemic’. In recorded human history, … Read entire article »
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Who are Stakeholders To Kashmir
Punchline Stakeholder Discourse By Z. G. Muhammad While talking about the Kashmir ‘Dispute’ or ‘Problem’, I don’t see a reason for bringing in a chief executive nee chief ministers of the state under discussion. For they are no stakeholder to the Dispute and have no role in its resolution or finding a solution. They simply replicate the role of the Mogul, Afghan and Sikh governors in the State. My premise is based on two hard facts one nature of their appointment and second the history of the Dispute and moves towards its resolutions. Historically, the conditions of the appointments of Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers in the state did not change even after Maharaja Hari Singh abdicated his throne in 1947. Their appointments like those of the business executives continued to be on … Read entire article »
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Pakistan’s Letter Diplomacy and Kashmir
PUNCHLINE Pakistan’s Letter Diplomacy By Z.G. Muhammad Kashmir has been converted into blood tarn. In the recent history, the past forty-three days have been the goriest and the barbaric. More than 1.3 billion pellets, thousands of bullets, teargas shells and pepper gas cartridges have been fired killing sixty-eight and wounding over ten thousand civilians- scores disabled for life. Every day, more than two hundred and fifty people at an average are wounded. In the seventy years, history of the struggle for the right to self-determination for the first time more than five hundred children, teenagers and youth were fired with pellets in eyes and pushed into darkness for rest of their life. In the twentieth century, largely seen a century of decolonization, freedom struggles and people’s struggles for rights across the globe … Read entire article »
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Ban Ki Moon Move Beyond Ritualistic Statements.
Punchline Bringing Kashmir to Table. By Z.G.Muhammad ‘Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a statesman with an olive branch for Pakistan and a resolution for Kashmir Dispute in mind.’ This line orchestrated by a section of New Delhi print and electronic media on his taking over as Prime Minister of India found some takers even amongst the Kashmir resistance leaders. Their belief got further strengthened after; Vajpayee travelled to Lahore on the inaugural bus run of the Delhi-Lahore bus service. … Read entire article »
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UN Is Equally Culpable For Killings in Kashmir
Punchline Call for UN Session BY Z. G. Muhammad The ongoing bloodbath in Kashmir has been loudly calling for holding of an ‘emergency special session’ of the United Nations Security Council. Lives of a whole generation in the age group of 8 to 25 is at risk. Like animals, they are killed with live ammunition, shot with hundreds of pellets in their faces and eyes –thrown in a dark world with ‘light denied forever’ and maimed and disabled for … Read entire article »
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2016 Kashmir Intifida- Case For UN
Where We Erred Z. G. Muhammad “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.” For past sixty-seven years, this is exactly, what we the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been doing. Time and again we have not allowed them to ‘write us down in history with their bitter and twisted lies’ but to use a poet’s words every time like a ‘black ocean, … Read entire article »
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Kashmir: Converting Sacrifices into Success
PUNCHLINE Converting Struggle into Resolution By Z. G. Muhammad To invite attention, it costs us lives of our youth, hundreds with bullet wounds disabled for life and now scores of children pelleted to blindness. Such huge is the cost we pay to make the world acknowledge the right to self-determination of 16 million people of the State. Interestingly and intriguingly, it equally costs pools of blood to cause a debate in the Indian Parliament over the Kashmir situation and wake up the ruling elite in Islamabad to the hard realities of the Kashmir situation- not one portrayed by neo-progressive journalists of the country immune to the suffering of people. That has been our story for past sixty-seven years. Nevertheless, after offering immense sacrifices and bringing back the dispute on the international diplomatic turf every time … Read entire article »
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